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BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE LIST OF LISTS [04/01/2012]

ANNUALS:

See under Basics Basic Gardening Illustrated.

See under Basics THE Garden Primer.

See under Design The New Perennial Garden

See under Color and Succession books by Christopher Lloyd

See under Comprehensive A-Z Garden Plants

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Book of Lists

See under Comprehensive Gardening in the Mid-Atlantic.

See under Comprehensive The Gardener’s Companion.

See under Comprehensive Tough Plants for Tough Places.

See under Disease the compilation by Gail Ruhl

See under Shade Beth Chatto’s The Shade Garden

See under Shade Ken Wiley’s Shade

See under Natives Armitage’s Native Plants for North American Gardens

See under Natives Easy Care Native Plants.

See under Organic All New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.

Allan M. Armitage. Armitage’s Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy

Perennials. Timber Press, 2001. Largest section of this book is the “A to Z Genera”

(pp. 19-510). But it also has “useful lists” in the Appendix: Biennials, Half-hardy

perennials, winter annuals, shade-tolerant plants, fragrant plants, climbing

plants, everlastings.

Allan M. Armitage. Armitage’s Garden Annuals: A Color Encyclopedia. Timber

Press, 2004. The A-Z encyclopedia (pp. 12-358) comprises most of the book. Part

Two lists selected plants for specific characteristics or purposes: fall interest,

shade, cool season, winter annuals, unique flower or fruit, edible plants,

architectural features, prickly plants, for naturalizing…for floral designs…for

containers and baskets…for edging, foliage, fragrance, biennials, fruit, herbal

plants, natives, vines, love the heat….the water, bulbous roots and grasses,

poisonous, cut flowers

Botanica. Botanica’s Annuals and Perennials. San Diego: Laurel Glen Publishing,

1999. More encyclopedia than “lists,” describes over 2,000 plants, including

species and cultivars, culture and habitat, etc.

AQUTICS (See Waterside)

BASICS OF GARDENING:


Ken Beckett, Steve Bradley, Noel Kingsbury & Tim Newbury. Gardening

Basics: How to Design, Plant, and Maintain Your Garden. Contributing Editor

John E. Elsley. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1998. Chapters on Designing

the Garden, Plants for the Garden, Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs, Care and

Maintenance. The Appendix includes a calendar for basic tasks for each season for

both an ornamental and edible garden. Plant lists for a variety of different planting

purposes; a section on pests and diseases.

Henk Beentje. The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms.

London: Kew Publishing, 2010. Botanical terms and very useful lists.

Stefan Buczocki. Plant Dictionary. London: Hamlyn/Octopus, 1998,2000. An

encyclopedia A-Z of plants; family names list, common plant names list.

Brian Capon. Botany for Gardeners. Revised Edition. Timber Press, 2005, 2009.

Cells and seeds; roots and shoots; stems, etc. Pictures, charts, lists (e.g., poisonous

house and garden plants).

Barbara Damrosch. The Garden Primer. New York: Workman Publishing Co.,

2008. How to grow and tend over 378 plants; emphasis upon the basics of

gardening (planning, planting, and upkeep); covers annuals, perennials, vegetables,

herbs, fruits, bulbs, roses, lawns, ground covers, vines, shrubs, trees, wildflowers,

and houseplants.

S. Engels, V. Goldstuck, M. Gorlach, R. Simoni. Basic Gardening: Everything

You Need to Make Your Garden Grow. Translated from the German for American

Pie. London. Distributed in the U.S. by Silverback Books, Inc, 2001. Short sections

on the basics of gardening plus plants of several regions and types—

mediterranean, Turbo-Green, Classic, Asia, Gourmet a la carte, the Tough Guys.

Sunset Books. Basic Gardening Illustrated: The Gardener’s A-Z Handbook.

Revised Edition, Sunset Books ,1975, 4th

Edition, 1999. Chapter on gardening

basics—climate, how plants grow, managing soil….; includes a Primer of Garden

Plants listing trees, shrubs, lawns, ground covers, vines, annuals and biennials,

perennials, bulbs, vegetables, herbs, berries and grapes, fruit trees.

BEDS AND BORDERS:

See under Design Creating Beds and Borders.

See under Design Natural Garden Style.

See under Design Planting Design

BEES (see also Butterflies)

Eric Grissell. Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in

Gardens. Timber Press, 2010. Lists include: Hymenopteran families and their

larval feeding habits found north of Mexico (pp. 282-291); Hymenopteran families

and their larval feeding habits not found north of Mexico (pp. 292-293); author-

designated “more stable, reliable primary sources for Hymenoptera” (pp. 295-305).

Matthew J. Sarver. Delaware Native Plants for Native Bees. Revised edition.

Dover, DE: USDA NRCS and Delaware Department of Agriculture, 2009.

Contains three lists (also listed in the LIST of Lists): Bee Names, Bee Plants, and

Flowering Periods for Native Bee Plants.

BIRDS:

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic…Book of Lists.


See under Perennials Perennials for Every Purpose.

See under Wildlife Your Backyard Wildlife Garden.

BULBS, CORMS, TUBERS:


See under Basics The Garden Primer.

See under Color and Succession books by Christopher Lloyd.

See under Comprehensive A-Z Garden Plants.


See under Comprehensive Dry-Land Gardening.

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Book of Lists.



See under Shade Beth Chatto’s The Shade Garden.

See under Shade Ken Wiley’s Shade.

See under Natives Armitage’s Native Plants for North American Gardens.


See under Perennials Graham Thomas’ Perennial Garden Plants.

Kathy Brown. The Complete Practical Handbook of Garden Bulbs. London:

Southwater, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd., 2005, 2008. A general

introduction to bulbs, organized seasonally, with a section on container bulbs, and

the inside bulb garden. An extensive list “A Directory of Bulbs” takes up pages

152 to 237. Very comprehensive and lots of pictures.

John E. Bryan. Timber Press Pocket Guide to Bulbs. Timber Press, 2005. A very

useful, though brief, introduction followed by an entire chapter of bulbs for

specific purposes and locations (e.g., Blue flowers, Purple flowers, Pink

flowers…Early…late Spring flowers…early late Summer flowers…for shade…for

fragrance…for rock gardens. Also “Bulbs A to Z.”

Anna Pavord. Bulb. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2009. Alphabetical chapters on

individual bulbs very much like an encyclopedia. No “lists” as such. Considered by

many to be “the” source of information on bulbs.

Louise Beebe Wilder. Adventures with Hardy Bulbs. New York: Macmillan,

1936. An exception to the “inclusion” rule (i.e., published after 1990), this was for

many years “the” book on bulbs because of its encyclopedic list of hardy bulbs.

BUTTERFLIES ( and Bees):

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic …Book of Lists.

See under Comprehensive Lasagna Gardening.

See under Natives Armitage’s Native Plants…



See under Sustainability Sue Barton’s Livable Ecosystems.


Eric Mader, Matthew Shepherd, Mace Vaughan, Scott Hoffman Black, &

Gretchen Lebuhn. Attracting Native Pollinators: Protecting North Americans

Bees and Butterflies. North Adams, MA.: Storey Publishing, 2011. Published

under the auspices of the Xerces Society (protection and understanding of

invertebrates), it covers beetles, flies, wasps, and bees. Discusses the role of

pollinators, managing habitats for pollinators, a bee primer, and illustrated garden

plans, regional plant lists, color photographs of pollinator-attracting plants, and a

list of larval host plants for particular butterflies.

CLIMBERS:




See under Comprehensive Right Plant, Right Place.

See under Comprehensive The A-Z Encyclopedia.

See under Comprehensive The Well-Designed Mixed Border.

See under Comprehensive Plants for Small Spaces.

See under Design The Essential Garden Design Workbook.

See under Vines Armitage’s Vines and Climbers.

COASTAL PLANTS:

See under Color Planting for Color.


See under Comprehensive Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast.

Irene H. Stuckey & Lisa Lofland Gould. Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape

Canaveral. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Most of the

book is taken up with “plant descriptions,” pp. 23-270.

COLOR/COLOUR:

See under Perennials The Perennial Garden: Color Harmonies through the

Seasons.

Sandra Austin. Color in Garden Design. Taunton Press, 1998. Several

introductory chapters on color systems, color names, hue, value, saturation, color

combinations and how color is seen. The chapter on “Color in Contrast” includes

several types of plants under the categories light, texture, time, visual field, and

composing with color.

Susan Chivers. Planting for Color. The Horticulture Gardener’s Guides,

Horticulture Books, 2005. Short sections on various colors with short lists for each

color. Also Color Situations: town…country…coastal…woodland…water

gardens; hardscaping; containers; Seasons: early spring, late spring, early

summer, late summer, fall, winter; Favorite color planting groups.

Pam Duthie. Continuous Bloom: A Month-by-Month Guide to Nonstop Color in

the Perennial Garden. Ball Publishing Co., 2000. Examines continuous bloom

throughout the seasons, from March to Winter. Individual plants are described.

There are several Appendices covering: Colored foliage, hostas, astilbes,

daylilies, and perennials least affected by deer-and rabbit-browse.

Christopher Lloyd. Color for Adventurous Gardeners. Firefly Books, 2001.No

actual lists but for each “color” described there are many, many plants mentioned.

Nori and Sandra Pope. Color by Design: Planting the Contemporary Garden.

First published by Conran Octopus Ltd; SOMA Books, 1998. Each chapter on a

major hue includes plants of that hue though not arranged by “lists.”

Catherine Ziegler. The Harmonious Garden: Color, Form, and Texture. Timber,

1996.Chapters on the Sixteen-Color wheel, plant details and associations, etc.

Appendix A: Bloom options for temperate climates by exposure, season, and

color; Appendix B: Foliar options for temperate climates by exposure, season

and color.

COMMUNITY GARDENING (See Urban Gardening)

COMPOSTING

See under Comprehensive The City Gardener’s Handbook.


See under Organic Your Organic Garden.

“Books/Publications collected since 1996 by Hetty E. Francke, Master

Composter/Master Gardener.” lists of children’s books about worms,

composting, soil and environment; activities about same topics.

Deborah L. Martin & Grace Gershuny, eds. The Rodale Book of Composting.

Rodale Press, 1992. Various charts and graphs illustrating aspects of composting.

Stu Campbell. Let It Rot! The Gardener’s Guide to Composting. 3rd

edition.Storey

Publishing, 1998. A general guide to composting given out at Master Composter

classes. Lists: materials for your compost pile, grasscycling tips, how to

construct an indore pile, etc.

COMPREHENSIVE/GENERAL:


Simon Akeroyd, Zia allaway, Helena Caldon, Martyn Cox, Jenny Hendy

[Authors; Project Editor Sarah Ruddick; Editors Chauney Dunford, Caroline Reed,

Becky Shackleton, Diana Vowles, Helena Caldon]. The Royal Horticultural

Society Complete Gardener’s Manual. London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2011. As

its subtitle indicates, this is the “how to dig, sow, plant and grow” book of the

RHS. It is filled with short and long lists: “Vegetable Crop Planner” runs four

pages. There is an extensive plant chooser which is a catalogue of plants, by type.

For example, in the chapter on Annuals, Biennials, and Bedding, there is also a

long “list’ of “also recommended” plants in addition to the ones beautifully

pictured. And so on through short chapters on containers, bulbs, spring and early

summer perennials, summer and autumn perennials, perennials for winter

interest, water and bog plants, plants for scent, shrubs, climbers, screening

and hedging plants, rock plants , ground cover plants for sun…for shade,

grasses, sedges and bamboos, conifers, structural plants, trees, plants for acid

soil…for chalky and lime-rich soils…for heavy clay…for hot, dry sites…for

exposed sites

Bonnie Lee Appleton & Lois Trigg Chaplin, eds. The New York/Mid-Atlantic

Gardener’s Book of Lists. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001. This is a comprehensive

LIST of lists on Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Ground Covers, Perennials, Roses,

Ornamental Grasses, Ferns, Bulbs, Annual, Water Gardens. It also includes

Special Lists and Gardens: Pennsylvania Gold-Medal Trees, Shrubs and Vines,

Delaware plants of the year, Long Island Gold-Medalists, Native Plants (with

separate lists on Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Ground Covers, Perennials and

Wildflowers—for sun, for shade and woodlands, ferns and grasses; Invasive non-

native plants, edible landscapes, Wildlife gardens, Plants that attract birds,

Plants that attract hummingbirds, Plants that attract butterflies, Deer-

resistant plants, Coastal gardens, Bayscaping with Native Plants, Plants vs.

human health. The Trees section, for example, includes such sub-topics as Trees

for the 21st Century, Japanese Maples, Shade-tolerant trees, Trees for wet sites,

Trees for dry sites, Trees that tolerate clay soil, Trees for alkaline soil, Trees that

need acid soil, Container trees, Fast-Growing Shade trees, Trees that litter, Trees

prone and resistant to storm damage, Evergreen screens and windbreaks, Trees for

narrow spaces, Trees with special transplant timing, Living Christmas Trees.

Joan Benjamin & Barbara W. Ellis, eds. Rodales’s No-Fail Flower Garden:

How to Plan, Plant, and Grow a Beautiful, Easy-Care Garden. Rodale Press, 1994.

Includes chapters on “no-fail plant combinations, a gallery of easy garden designs”

and a “plant-by-plant guide to no-fail flowers.”

Christopher Brickell & H. Marc Cathey, eds. The American Horticultural

Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants: The Definitive Horticultural

Reference for the 21st Century. Revised US Edition, Covent Garden Books, 2003.

After introductory chapters on botany and cultivation, this Encyclopedia gets down

to listing Ornamental Plants Groups—trees, shrubs, climbers, perennials, rock

plants, annuals and biennials, bulbous plants, orchids, bromeliads, cacti and other

succulents, palms and cycads, ferns, aquatic plants, grasses and bamboos (pp. 55-

1071). See also The American Horticultural Society Encylopedia of Plants and

Flowers 700 page encyclopedia includes more than 1,000 additional plants in the

previous 2002 edition.

Roberta M. Coughlin.The Gardener’s Companion: A Book of Lists and Lore.

New York: Harper Perennial (Harper Collins), 1991. Over 350 lists of “practical

information” on flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, soils, roses. annuals,

perennials, bulbs, grasses, herbs, houseplants, flowers that attract birds,

butterflies and bees, etc. Also what she calls “historical and miscellaneous lists.”

Tracy DiSabato-Aust. The Well-Designed Mixed Garden. Timber Press, 2003,

“Appendix B

‘Plants by Design Characteristics’ in pp. 255-428. DiSabato-Aust arranges things

in a Culture Chart and includes these topics: Type (tree,shrub,etc), Zone, Soil

Moisture, Light, Soil pH. For each item she also includes descriptions: small

conifer, conical form, blue-gray needles (for Abies) or Light yellow flowerheads,

gray-green foliage (for Achillea ‘Anblo’).

Nicola Ferguson, Right Plant, Right Place: Over 1400 Plants for Every Situation

in the Garden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Joanna Chisholm (Editor);

Kathy Fahey (Americanizer); originally published London: Cassell Illustrated,

2005. Table of Contents lists the following: plants suitable for. . .shallow soils over

chalk….acid soils….heavy, clay soils, ….dry soils in hot, sunny site….damp and

wet soils; plants tolerant of dry shade…dense shade; shrubs and trees suitable

for windswept, seaside gardens; trees, shrubs, and woody climbers tolerant of

atmospheric pollution; plants suitable for ground cover; climbing plants; hedging

plants; trees, shrubs, and woody climbers suitable for growing in containers;

plants suitable for crevices in paving; plant with….variegated leaves….gray, blue-

gray, or silver leaves….purple, bronze, or red leaves….yellow or yellow-brown

leaves….decorative green foliage….colorful, autumn foliage….aromatic

foliage….ornamental fruit….ornamental bark or twigs; decorative plants with

flowers suitable for cutting; plants with fragrant flowers; winter-loving plants;

plants with green flowers; ‘black’ plants; perennial plants with a long,

continuous flowering period; index of botanical names; index of common

names.

William H. Frederick, Jr. The Exuberant Garden and the Controlling

Hand.Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1992. Subtitled “Plant Combinations for North

American Gardens,” there are 38 appendices listing various topics: plant listing by.

. .mature height…soil preference…soil moisture…light preference…tolerance of

wind…tolerance of poor air…low fertility…drought…shallow soil…high

pH…hot, muggy summers…seasonal interest-fruit and seed heads…structuring

qualities…fragrance…bird attractors…butterfly attractors..texture-

foliage…flower…bark…color of foliage-spring and summer…fall…color of

flower…color of fruit or seed…recommended as ground covers…for use between

stepping stones…to give mosslike effect…over spring flowering bulbs…old shrub

roses…topiary standards…useful for clipped topiary…bulbs for naturalizing…for

meadow effect.

Penelope Hobhouse. Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of

Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles—From Ancient Egypt to the Present

Day. Simon & Schuster, 1992. Several chapters contain short lists of plants: origins

of gardening in the West, Islam, Medieval gardens, botanists, plantsmen, gardeners

of the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, French formality, 18th

century English

landscape, 19th century North American, gardening as conservation.

Clive Lane. Plants for Small Spaces. Horticulture Books [The Horticulture

Gardener’s Guides series]. 2005. Doesn’t include “lists” as such, but in each of its

chapters—Structure and Foliage, Hardy, Sensory, and Seasonal—the descriptions

often include short lists of relevant plants. E.g., HARDY—Climbers, Perennials,

Shrubs.

Patricia Lanza. Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful

Gardens. Rodale, 1998. Lists include: plants for a butterfly garden (pp. 134-135);

plants for edible flower garden (pp. 138-141); plants for a white garden (pp. 148-

155); plants for an easy-care perennial garden (pp. 157-159); plants for self-

sowing garden (pp. 165-167); late-season crops for lasagna gardens (p. 172); best

berries for birds (pp. 176 – 177); pretty plants for winter gardens (pp. 179-180);

native beneficial insects (p. 193); weeds you can live with (p. 200); favorite

climbers (pp. 208 – 210); rock-garden plants for rubble walls (pp. 216 – 219);

plants for container gardens (p. 227).

Peter Loewer. Tough Plants for Tough Places: How to Grow 101 Easy-Care

Plants for Every Part of Your Yard. Rodale Press, 1992. Describes 25 garden

designs and the plants best suited to them—e.g., an edge of the pond garden, a

bog garden, a raised bed garden, a garden of bulbs. Specialty gardens and lots of

descriptions of plants, grasses, bulbs, groundcovers, ferns, vines, shrubs and

small trees.

B. Mackey et. al. The Gardener’s Home Companion. New York, NY: Macmillan

Publishing.1991. Covers many regular topics, such as soil, fertilizer, mulching,

organic controls of pests, roses, shrubs, groundcovers, ornamental grasses,

lawn grasses.

Lauren Springer Ogden. The Undaunted Garden. 2nd

edition. The 1994 first

edition was listed as one of the 75 best gardening books of the prior 75 years by the

American Horticultural Society in 1997. Describes experimentation with plants,

gardens, and garden design in Colorado, Texas and elsewhere. Final chapter is a

description of her 100 “indispensably undaunted plants.”

Reader’s Digest New Illustrated Guide to Gardening. 2000. There are extensive

lists for trees, shrubs, flowers, heathers, ferns, perennials, vines, roses,

rhododendron and azaleas, bulbs, water plants. The original Illustrated Guide to

Gardening was published by Reader’s Digest in 1978.

Reader’s Digest Beginner’s Guide to Gardening. 2005. Lists galore—the usual

trees, shrubs, etc—but also Plants for Difficult Places, Plants for Special Positions,

Plants for Special Effects.

Gene M. Silberhorn. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast: A Field Guide.

Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1982, 1999. Separate chapters

on: plants of the beach, dunes, and maritime forest, plants of salt and brackish

marshes, plants of freshwater wetlands, tidal and nontidal (including forested

wetlands).

Andre & Mark Viette (with Jacqueline Heriteau). Gardening in the Mid-

Atlantic: Month-by-Month What to Do each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden all

Year. Nashville, TN: Cool Springs Press, 2004. Separate chapters on annuals and

biennials; bulb s, corms, rhizomes & tubers; herbs and vegetables;

houseplants, lawn, perennials, roses, shrubs, trees; vines, ground covers &

ornamental grasses; water and bog plants.

Linda Yang. The City Gardener’s Handbook: From Balcony to Backyard. New

York: Random House, 1990. Chapters on garden history and design, gardening

with perennials, ferns, dwarf trees and shrubs, herbs, ornamental grasses; garden

pests, soils and compost, pruning.

CONTAINERS:

See under Color Planting for Color




See under Invasives Livable Plants for the Home Landscape

Ray Rogers. The Encyclopedia of Container Plants. Timber Press, 2010. The

“core” of this book is the “A to Z Plant Directory” (pp. 37-334). There is also a

much shorter “Gallery of Inspired Containers,” which contains lists of plants in the

pictured containers.

DEER/ RABBIT RESISTANT PLANTS:

See under Color Continuous Bloom.

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic….Book of Lists.


See under Natives Bringing Nature Home.

See under Perennials The Well-Tended Perennial Garden.

DESIGN:

See under Basics Gardening Basics (designing the garden).

See under Succession the book by Christopher Lloyd Succession Planting.

See under Color Sandra Austin’s Color in Garden Design.

See under Color Pam Duthie’s Continuous Bloom.

See under Sustainability The Natural Garden Book.

Rosemary Alexander. The Essential Garden Design Workbook. Timber Press,

2004. It has a Core Plant List (pp. 265-270) which includes sections on Structural

Planting (Large, Native, Deciduous Trees; Large, Decorative, Deciduous Trees;

Fast-Growing Trees; Vertical Conifers; Small Trees as Specimens or Focal

Points, Structural Shrubs or Small Trees) Key Planting (Shrubs as Seasonal

Features); Decorative Planting (Deciduous Shrubs; Decorative Climbers; Rounded

Plants; Grasses); Herbaceous Planting (Broad-Brush Herbaceous Perennials;

Plants with Fleeting Effects)

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA. & Robin Karson, eds. Pioneers of American

Landscape Design. McGraw Hill, 2000. Brief biographical sketches of American

Landscape designers with short lists of projects for each person described.

Derek Fell. Creative Landscaping: Ideas, Designs, and Blueprints. [revised

edition of Home Landscaping by Elizabeth Murray and Derek Fell.New York:

Simon and Schuster, 1988]. New York: Friedman/Fairfax Book, 1995. A useful

landscape design book that provides “lists” of plants, hardscape, etc. for each of

the kinds of “gardens” described: gardens for entertaining and recreation, for

relaxation, for display, for welcoming areas, for climate control, to create privacy,

to create optical illusions, for conducting movement, and for establishing

boundaries.

Fine Gardening. Creating Beds and Borders. Fine Gardening Design Guides.

Tauton Press, 2001. Separate articles written by the editors and staff of Fine

Gardening magazine: bed and border basics, order in the border, design island beds

to view from any angle, perennial border design with foliage; flowering

shrubs…annuals…roses. Part 4 is a “Garden Gallery” which includes articles on

“A Perennial Border for All Seasons,” “ Solutions for Wet, Shady Sites,”

“Designing a Warm-Climate Border,” “Can’t Dig Down,” and “ Sun and Shade.”

Susan Rademacher Frey & Barbara W. Ellis. Outdoor Living Spaces:How to

Create a Landscape You Can Use and Enjoy. Rodale Press, 1992. Provides

general design principles and topics and making your own landscape design. One

of the Appendices is a “list” of plants for every purpose,” arranged by “purpose”—

e.g., annuals (heat-tolerant, cool-growing, with attractive foliage), perennials (for

the north, for the south, with striking foliage), bulbs, trees and shrubs, vines,

plants for hedges and screens, etc.

Lucy Gent. Great Planting. U.K. Ward Lock Book, 1995. Chapters on

garden design, colour in the garden, cottage/country/wild gardens,

exotic/gravel/rock/small/vegetable/well-tempered gardens

Leroy G. Hannebaum. Landscape Design: A Practical Approach. 3rd

edition.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall Career and Technology Books, 1994. He

covers all aspects of landscape design, including planting design, plantings and

architecture, embellishments, landscape problems, use of computers in landscape

design, irrigation systems. He has extensive plant materials listed in his

appendix—shade trees, small ornamental trees, deciduous ornamental shrubs,

broadleaf evergreen shrubs, narrowleaf evergreen trees and shrubs,

groundcovers, vines.

Jacqueline Heriteau. Designing, Creating, Nurturing Glorious Gardens.New

York: Roundtable Press Book, 1966. In chapters describing various kinds of

gardens—natural, weekend, kitchen, small, water, shade, xeriscape, hillside,

seashore, and rock gardens—she lists appropriate plants for each type of garden.

Noel Kingsbury. The New Perennial Garden. London: Frances Lincoln, 1996. A

book about the “new style” of garden design called the “new perennial” movement

that emphasizes planting communities in nature and the garden, learning lessons

from nature, encouraging wildlife, planning for low maintenance, year-round

interest, colour and form, plant groups. There are separate chapters on shade

planting, full sun, waterside and damp ground, dry areas and “meadow” planting.

There are extensive lists in the Plant Tables (pp. 132-153): Plants for shade

(clump-forming, slowly spreading; open habit, slowly spreading; ground cover,

vigorously spreading; grasses, sedges and rushes; bulbs and other summer-dormant

plants; ferns; Plants for light shade (taller, clump-forming, ground cover,

spreading, bulbs); plants for moist shade (tall, upright, medium upright, clump-

forming); Plants for meadows (low-growing, medium, taller, climbers, trailers);

Plants for rough grass; Plants for prairies (low-growing, grasses, medium tall,

taller); plants for heathland (perennials, shrubs, grasses, for boggy conditions);

Short-lived perennials, biennials and annuals; Plants for moist ground;

Aquatic and plants for the waterside; Plants for dry environments; Plants for

steppes

Noel Kingsbury. Natural Garden Style: Gardening Inspired by Nature. London:

Merrell, 2009. Focuses on meadows, prairies and borders, trees and woodland,

sculpture and ornament, land and water forms, sun and stone with very short lists

of plants for each of those topics.

Piet Oudolf & Noel Kingsbury. Designing with Plants. Timber Press, 1999. A

garden design book that covers such topics as planting palettes (form,

leaves,colour), designing schemes (combining forms, combining colours, structure

& filler plants, using grasses…umbellifers, repetition and rhythm, assembling a

planting, natural planting, planting through the season, breaking the rules,

evolution, using plants as architecture; moods; year-round planting. It also has an

extensive list of plants, the “plant directory” of perennials and grasses (pp,

144-155) referenced in the text. There are also border designs and a list of

umbellifers.

Piet Oudolf & Noel Kingsbury. Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space.

Timber Press, 2005. Published as Planten voor morgen. Terra Lannoo, the

Netherlands, 2005. A book about planting “nature” gardens conscious of ecology

and habitat in time and space with heavy emphasis upon “meadows.” It also

contains the following lists: plants to look up at. . . .to look through. . . .to look

over….to look down on to (pp. 87-88); plants with a long season of interest

(perennials, grasses, ferms), pp. 98-99; a mixed border plan with list of plants (pp.

120-121); small trees to combine with perennials; shrubs to combine with

perennials (p. 138); underplanting for shrubs and trees (p. 143); robust long-lived

perennials and ferns (p.169).

Dan Pearson. Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City. London: Conran Octopus,

2011. Pearson is a garden designer, especially of Home Far in rural England, but

also a writer and contributor to various gardening magazines. This is a season-by-

season account of his renovation of a “city” garden. There are no “lists” as such,

but there are multiple suggestions for plants throughout the four season.

Claire E. Sawyers. The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating a sense

of Place. Timber Press, 2007. Examples of each of the five principles are included

with short lists of plants. .

DISEASE:


See under Insects The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and

Disease Control.

See under Insects Insect, Disease & Weed I.D. Guide.

See under Insects The Organic Gardeners’ Handbook.



See under Shrubs Broad Leaved Shrubs and Shade Trees.

See under Turf Successful Lawn Management.

David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth. What’s Wrong with My Plant (And

How Do I Fix it): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies.

Timber Press, 2009. Flow charts for easy diagnosis (vegetables, edible flowers,

fruits), natural solutions and organic remedies (for fungi, insects, mites, bacteria,

viruses, nematodes, pests), photo gallery of common problems.

Gail Ruhl, compiler. Selected Reference Materials for Plant Disease Diagnosis.

Purdue University, 2009-2010. Reference materials on trees and shrubs,

houseplants, annuals, perennials, tree fruits and small fruits, general references,

turf and vegetables.

Wayne A. Sinclair & Howard H. Lyon. Diseases of Trees and Shrubs. 2nd

Edition. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Association, a division of Cornell

University Press, 2005. An encyclopedia of diseases and their causes.

Michael D. Smith, ed. Ortho Problem Solver. 6th

Edition. Meredith Books, 2003.

Extensive lists on powdery mildews and plants they infect, diseases of trees and

shrubs and turf, disease resistant crabapples, etc.

Cynthia Wescott (revised by R.K.Horst). Wescott’s Plant Disease Handbook.

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Dual approach by disease and by host

plant to identification; common and Latin names of host plants, common names of

diseases and Latin names of pathogens. Last chapter is a “list” of host plants with

their diseases.

DRY/DROUGHT SITES & PLANTING:


See under Comprehensive the book on xeriscaping by Jennifer Bennett.

See under Design The New Perennial Garden.

See under History of Gardens Hugo Latymer’s The Mediterranean Gardener.

See under Invasives Livable Plants for the Home Landscape.



See under Perennials The Well-Tended Perennial Garden.


See under Perennials Gardening with Perennials.

See under Perennials Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials.

Jennifer Bennett. Dry-Land Gardening: A Xeriscaping Guide for Dry-Summer,

Cold-Winter Climates. Firefly Books. 1998. Short lists of grasses and

groundcovers, bulbs, vines, vegetables, herbs, roses and shrubs

Beth Chatto. Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden: Drought-resistant Planting Through

the Year. London: Frances Lincoln, 2000. Describes how she created her gravel

gardens, Chatto describes briefly the plants she used in very, very short lists.

EDIBLE PLANTS:



See under Disease What’s Wrong with My Plant.

See under Herbs Eat The Weeds

Rosalind Creasy. Edible Landscaping. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, first

published in 1982, revised and issued in 2011. Landscaping with food plants.

Detailed description and lists

FERNS:





See under Comprehensive The A-Z of Garden Plants.

See under Design Planting Design.

See under Invasives Plants for a Livable Delaware, Controlling Backyard

Invaders, Liveable Plants for the Home Landscape.




See under Natives Native Plants of the Northeast.

See under Natives American Plants for American Gardens.

See under Natives Delaware Native Plants for Landscaping and Restoratio n.

See under Perennials Gardening with Perennials Month by Month.

See under Perennials Perennial Garden Plants.

See under Shade the books on shade by Beth Chatto and Ken Wiley.

Boughton Cobb, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Cheryl Lowe. A Field Guide to Ferns

and Their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North America. 2nd

edition.

Peterson Field Guide Series. New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1956],1984,2005.

Extensive “lists” of true ferns, Succulent ferns, fern relatives.

John Mickel. Ferns for American Gardens:The Definitive Guide to Selecting and

Growing More than 500 Kinds of Hardy Ferns. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

Chapters on fern structure, growing and gardening with ferns, propagating, and

(the longest chapter) hardy ferns for American gardens. In the Appendix there is a

“list of ferns for special conditions.”

FRAGRANCE:

See under Annuals Armitage’s Manual of Annuals….

Louise Beebe Wilder. The Fragrant Garden: A Book About Sweet-scented

Flowers and Leaves. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1973. Originally

published with the title The Fragrant Path. by The Macmillan Co., 1932. Chapters

on perfumes and essential oils, fragrant flowers and leaves, herbs.

FRUIT TREES AND FRUIT PRODUCTION:



See under Disease the compilation by Gail Ruhl.



See under Pruning Pruning and Training.

Small-Scale Fruit Production. various contributors. Penn State University, 1997.

Contains numerous tables: fertilizer equivalents, monthly maintenance for home

fruit gardeners, important insects and mites and the fruit crops they attack, etc.

Indispensable handbook for those growing fruit.

GRASSES/SEDGES/RUSHES/ ornamental:






See under Comprehensive The Gardener’s Home Companion.

See under Comprehensive The New York/ Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Book of

Lists.

See under Design Designing with Plants and The Essential Garden Design

Workbook.


Invaders, Livable Plants for the Home Landscape.

See under Invasives Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas.




See under Natives Delaware Native Plants for Landscaping and Restoration.


See under Perennials Perennial Garden Plants [grasses, rushes,sedges].

See under Prairies Prairie-Style Gardens.

See under Shade the books by Beth Chatto and Ken Wiley.

Rick Darke. The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses, Sedges, Rushes,

Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos. Timber Press, 1999. The Encyclopedia

constitutes chapter 7 (pp. 131-300). There are introductory chapters on the beauty

of grasses, the families of grasses, the names of grasses, learning from grasses in

native habitats, designing with grasses, and growing and maintaining grasses.

There are no lists other than the Encyclopedia.

Rick Darke. Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses. Timber Press,

2004. Annotated and illustrated listing of ornamental grasses.

Thomas A.Reinhardt, Martina Reinhardt, & Mark Moskowitz. Ornamental

Grasses: Design Ideas, Uses and Varieties. Los Angeles: Friedman/Fairfax, 1995.

(Originally published as Ornamental Grass Gardening. 1989.). An extensive

“catalogue of grasses,” pp. 88-117. The Appendix lists: ground cover plantings,

specimen plantings, grasses for…the rock garden…the prairie garden…woodland

gardens…dune and seashore…edge of ponds, shallow water, and bogs…the

perennial border…with strong vertical line…with pendulous weeping

shape…mound forming grasses...with variegation…with blue foliage…with red

foliage…with a nice fall color…spreading habit…sensitive to undrained soil in the

winter…that require winter protection…take root competition from trees and

shrubs…that like alkaline soil…that like acidic soil.

GROUND COVERS:

See under Basic Basic Gardening Illustrated.

See under Basic The Garden Primer.


See under Comprehsive Gardening in the Mid-Atlantic.





See under Comprehensive the A-Z Encyclopedia .


See under Invasives Plants for a Livable Delaware, Controlling Backyard.

Invaders, Livable Plants for the Home Landscape.




See under Shade the books by Beth Chatto and Keith Wiley.

HERBS:






See under Design Lasagna Gardening.

See under Fragrance Louise Wilder’s The Fragrant Garden.




See under Vegetables Carrots Love Tomatoes.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record. Herbs and their Ornamental

Uses. Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Inc. 1990. Landscaping, gardening with herbs.

Andi Clevely and Katherine Richmond. The Complete Book of Herbs. London:

Hermes House, 2002. A guide to herbs and their uses including recipes and gift

ideas. This book includes lists of notable herb flowers for color (p.20), herb

plants that encourage honey bees (p.26), herbs that grow in different soil types

(pp. 48-49), plants for a dye garden (p.37) and essential herbs for window sills

(p. 65).

Rosemary Gladstar. Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health. Story Publishing, 2008.

Previously published as Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal. Herbal recipes for

healthful living. This book includes lists of medicinal plants that are endangered

in their natural environment (p. 400).

Ben Charles Harris. Eat the Weeds. New York: Crown Pub. Inc., 1961.

Edible wild plants, ethnobotany of North American Indians, old herbals, weeds.

Jessica Houdret. Herbs. New York: Hermes House Anness Publishing Inc. 2002.

Previously published as The Ultimate Book of Herbs and Herb Gardening.

History and traditions, medicinal, culinary, aromatic and essential oils, plants and

gardening, periodicals and papers.

Paul Huson. Mastering Herbalism. New York: Stein and Day, 1974.

Old herbals, medicinals, culinary, hallucinogenic, aphrodisiac, wortcunning,

elixirs, planting by the moon.

Claire Kowalchik & William Hylton, eds. Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of

Herbs. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1987. Herbals, guides to

wildflowers, history and traditions, culinary, medicinal, dyeing, cosmetic, plants

and gardening.

Susan McClure. The Herb Gardener, A Guide for All Seasons. Massachusetts:

Storey Publishing, 1995. A book about siting an herb garden, designing formal and

informal herb gardens, planting and caring for herbs, safe disease and pest control

and harvesting and preserving herbs for cooking and crafts. It contains the

following lists: life cycles of various herbs (p. 17), which parts of the plant to

harvest for culinary purposes (p.103), plants for the indoor winter garden (p.

133), herb combinations and herbs to use alone for making herbal vinegars

(p.163) and herbs that repel moths (p.172). Book has many charts as well; some

of the lists are in the form of charts.

Penny C. Royal. Herbally Yours. California: Sound Nutrition, 1982. Alphabetized

guide to the use of herbs for health. This book includes a list of poisonous plants

(p.107). Previous editions of this book in 1976 and 1979.

http://www.50states.com/massachu.htm

HISTORY OF GARDENS/GARDENING [Includes Regional and National

Gardens:

See under Comprehensive Penelope Hobhouse’s Gardening Through the Ages.

Wade Graham. American Eden. New York: Harper, 2011. Garden history and

American landscapes from the colonial era to today. Focuses on garden designers,

landscape architects, architects and theorists.

Hugo Latymer. The Mediterranean Gardener. Frances Lincoln in association with

the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1990. Lists of plants for Mediterranean gardens

in Spain, California, Australia and plants for dry climates.

Irmtraud Schaarschmid-Richter & Osamu Mori. Japanese Gardens. New

York: William Morrow and Co., 1979. Chapters on Japanese architecture,

gardens, and far Easter art.

HOUSE PLANTS:





Charles C. Powell & Rosemarie Rossetti. The Healthy Indoor Plant: A Guide to

Successful Indoor Gardening. Columbus,OH: Rosewell Publishing, 1992.

Contains chapters on gardening indoors and a “Health Management Encyclopedia

of Common Indoor Plants,” pp. 189-232.

HUMMINGBIRDS:


See under Natives Armitage’s Native Plants….


INSECTS:

See under Comprenensive Lasagna Gardening.


See under Disease Ortho Problem Solver.

See under Natives William Cullina’s New England Wild Flower Society Guide.



See under Turf Successful Lawn Management

See under Vegetables Carrots Love Tomatoes.

Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, and Deborah L. Martin, editors. The

Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete

Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-friendly Way. Rodale,

Inc. 2009. Lists include: common insect damage symptoms (pp. 393-395).

Donald J. Borror, Charles A. Triplehorn, Norman F. Johnson, eds. An

Introduction to the Study of Insects. New York: Harcourt Brace College

Publishers, , 6th

edition, 1992. A college text book that contains everything and

many, many lists of insects.

Jill Jesiolowski Cebenko and Deborah L. Martin, editors. Insect, Disease &

Weed I.D. Guide: Find-it-fast Organic Solutions for Your Garden. Rodale Inc.,

2001. Lists include: common disorders of vegetable crops (p.129); common

diseases of garden vegetables (pp. 138-141); common diseases of garden fruit (p.

141); weeds as indicator plants (pp. 188-189). Helpful key and visual aide include:

key to common garden insects (pp. 20-23); visual glossary of plant parts (pp. 192-

193).

Michael S. Cherim. The Green Methods Manual: The Original Bio-control

Primer. 4th

edition. Green Spot Ltd Publishing Division, 93 Priest Road,

Nottingham, NH 03290-6204, 1998. Chapters with short lists on following topics:

green methods, gallery of bugs.

Whitney Cranshaw. Garden Insects of North America. Princeton University

Press, 2004. “Appendix of Host Plant Genera and Associated Insects and Mites,”

pp. 577-627.

John Davidson & Michael J. Raupp. Landscape IPM: Guidelines for Integrated

Pest Management of Insect and Mite Pests on Landscape Trees and Shrubs.

University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service, Bulletlin 350, 2nd

edition

(1993), 1997. Longest section is “Identification, monitoring and control

recommendations.” Very detailed information.

Barbara W. Ellis & Fern Marshall Bradley, eds. The Organic Gardener’s

Handbook of Natural and Disease Control. Rodale Press, 1996; original edition

The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A

Complete Problem-solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy

without Chemicals. Edited by Barbara Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley St. Martin’s

press, 1992. Chapters on garden pest-control, organic gardening, protection of

plants. [See more recent edition above in this category.]

Michael P. Hoffman & Anne C. Frodsham. Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect

Pests. Cornell Cooperative Extension publication, 1993. biology of insects,

parasites and predators, integrated pest control, biological control,

entomology.

Warren T. Johnson & Howard H. Lyon. Insects that Feed on Trees and Shrubs.

Ithaca, NY.: Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University, 1988. Lists on

possible causes of injury to plants in the biotic and physical environment.

Carolyn Klass & Karen L.Snover. Pest Management Around the Home: Part 1

Cultural Methods. A Cornell Cooperative Extension Publication, Miscellaneous

Bulletin S74; Part 2 --2005-2006 Pesticide Guidelines. Miscellaneous Bulletin 74.

Many tables, guidelines, lists of pests and diseases; IPM

Vera Krischik & John Davidson. IPM (Integrated Pest Management) of

Midwest Landscapes. University of Minesota Agricultural Experiment Station,

n.d. Pests of trees and shrubs (A-Z), turf pests, beneficial insects, pesticide

information. commendations.” Very detailed information.

George C. McGavin. Insects, Spiders and other Terrestrial Arthropods. 2nd

American edition. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000,2002. Smithsonian

Handbooks. Extensive lists of insects, hexapods, crustaceans, arachnids,

myriapods.

Josef Ric et. al. Detecting Signs and Symptoms of Asian Longhored Beetle Injury.

Ottawa, Canada: Plan Health Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2007.

Many illustrative pictures plus lists and websites.

INVASIVES:

See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic…Book of Lists

See under Natives Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines.

Sue Barton & Gary Schwetz. Plants for a Livable Delaware. [n.d.]. Identifies

invasives and provides alternatives: trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, sedges, ground

covers—many are Native to Delaware. First brochure in a series of three.

Sue Barton & Gary Schwetz. Controlling Backyard Invaders. [n.d.] identifies

invasive plants that are “no longer sold” but have become significant problems in

fields, forests, and other natural space. Alternatives same as first brochure.

Sue Barton & Gary Schwetz. Livable Plants for the Home Landscape.

[n.d.].Third brochure in series of three. This one provides gardeners with “tools”

needed to use plants in attractive, sustainable combinations that are well adapted to

specific niches in the landscape: meadow, wet area, dry shade, rain garden, forest

edge, pond/stream edge, sunny slope, salt and sand, small garden and container.

[various contributors]. Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas. [n.d.]

Produced by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Descriptions of the “invaders”: aquatic plants, herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees,

vines, grasses, perennials, reeds, weeds.

MEADOWS:

See under Design The New Perennial Garden, Natural Garden Style,

Planting Design.



NATIVES:


[Delaware Native Plant Society]. Delaware Native Plants for Landscaping and

Restoration. 2002. Intended to guide the selection of “native plants that are

indigenous to the State of Delaware.” Includes lists of Trees, Shrubs, Vines,

Wildflowers, Perennials, Grasses-Sedges-Rushes, Ferns.

Allan M. Armitage. Armitage’s Native Plants for North American Gardens.

Timber Press, 2006. Book has an “A-to-Z Genera” section (pp. 15-420). It also has

a “Useful Lists” section which includes the following: drought-tolerant plants,

water lovers, plant that…attract butterflies…attract hummingbirds, plants

that are less palatable to deer, rabbit-resistant plants, plants for…full

sun…partial shade…heavy shade, ephemerals, annuals, bulbs or corms.

William Cullina. The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and

Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada. New York: Houghton

Mifflin Co., 2000. Chapters on manuals and flora, seeds and propagation,

insect/plant interactions, orchids, medicinal plants, poisonous plants.

William Cullina. Native Trees,Shrubs, and Vines. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,

2002. There is an extensive “Encyclopedia of Plants” (pp. 30-260), as well as

sections in the Appendixes on trees, shrubs and vines for various sites and uses;

alternatives to invasive or potentially invasive exotic species, sources of nursery-

propagated native plants and seeds; native plant societies of the United States and

Canada; and Botanical gardens and arboretums specializing in native plants.

Elizabeth N. du Pont. Landscaping with Native Plants In the MiddleAtlantic

Region. 2nd

Edition. Chadds Ford, PA.: Brandywine Conservancy, 1978, 2004.

Beginning chapters on planning a place for native plants, the right plants in the

right places, designing with nature, implementing the native landscape design, and

maintaining the natural landscape garden. There is an extensive “Master Plant

List” (pp. 54-101), and other lists: plant preferences for sunlight and soil moisture;

specific wildlife value (butterfly, hummingbird, songbird), bloom sequence and

flower color, and invasive plant species.

Lorainne Johnson. 100 Easy-To-Grow Native Plants for American Gardens in

Temperate Zones. Revised Edition. Firefly Books, 2009 (originally published in

1960). Major section is the 100 native plants, but there is also a section on Plants

for Specific Situations.

Samuel B Jones & Leonard E.Foote. Gardening with Native Wild Flowers.

Timber Press, 1990. Wild flower gardening, wild flowers, ferns, aquatic/wetland

plants, ground covers.

Donald J. Leopold. Native Plants of the Northeast. Timber Press, 2005. Describes

ferns, grasses, wildflowers, vines, shrubs and trees; Appendices—plants

that…tolerate wet soil…tolerate dry soil…tolerate shade…plants with flowers that

attract butterflies and hummingbirds…with fruits that attract birds…with fruits that

attract mammals.

F. M. Mooberry & Jane H. Scott. Grow Native Shrubs in Your Garden.

Brandywine Conservancy, 1980. Lists and describes deciduous and evergreen

Rhododendrons, Viburnums, Shrubs for ….spring…summer…autumn….late

fall and winter.

Edith A. Roberts & Elsa Rehmann. American Plants for American Gardens.

Originally published by the Macmillan Company in 1929, it was republished in

1996 by the University of George Press. “In 1924, the Conservation Committee of

the Garden Club of America published with the Bulletin a booklet by Edith A.

Roberts and Margaret F.Shaw on the Ecology of the Plants Native to Dutchess

County, New York. This booklet with its lists of plant arranged according to

ecological associations suggested the idea for a series of articles which appeared in

House Beautiful under the title of Plant Ecology and are now presented in this

book.” Lists of plants in The Open Field, the Juniper Hillside, the Gray Birches,

the Pines, the Oak woods, the beech-maple-hemlock woods, the hemlock

ravine, the stream side, the pond, the bog, and the seaside.

Jane H. Scott. Field and Forest: A Guide to Native Landscapes for Gardeners and

Naturalists. New York: Walker & Co., 1984, 1992. A general introduction to

native landscapes with many “lists” of plants described throughout the book.

Douglas W. Tallamy. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife

in our Gardens. Timber Press, 2007. The “lists” can be found in the Appendices:

native plants with wildlife value and desirable landscaping attributes—shade

and specimen trees, shrubs and understory trees, conifers, vines, streamside

plants, ground covers, herbaceous perennials, dry sites…moist sites, grasses,

sedges, and rushes, ferns; native plants relatively unpalatable to white-tailed deer

(trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ferns, grasses); these categories are described

for the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions; and

host plants of butterflies and showy moths.

Patricia A. Taylor. Easy Care Native Plants: A Guide to Selecting and Using

Beautiful American Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees in Gardens and Landscapes. New

Yokr: Henry Holt & Co., 1996. Section Three lists the following: trees and

conifers; shrubs; groundcovers and wall climbers; bulbs, corms, and tubers;

annuals and biennials; ferns and grasses; perennials. She sprinkles short lists

among the chapters: natives grown by Thomas Jefferson, Danish Plantswoman’s

preference, natives for city rooftops, late summer shade plants, plants for highways

and road, garden jewels for June, dry west natives, prairie plants for front yards,

natives for woodlands, shade trees for cities and towns, famous and historic trees,

choice conifers, shrubs for winter interest, rewarding rhododendrons, colorful

clematis, beautiful bulbs, starter ferns, great grasses, etc.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation

Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed. 2003. Contains many lists of suitable

plants for wildlife habitat and conservation landscaping: ferns, grasses,

herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees and vines. Also separate sections on Plants with

a Purpose: plants for…coastal dunes…saltwater or brackish water

marshes..freshwater wetlands…bogs or bog gardens…dry meadows…wet

meadows…forest or woodland plantings…slopes…evergreens…plants to use as

groundcovers; plants for spring and fall color, deer resistant plants.

NUTRITION AND LIFE STLE:

M. Bricklin. Prevention Magazine’s Nutrition Advisor. Emmaus, PA: Rodale

Press, 1993. Contains many topics on nutrition: dietary allowances of protein,

vitamins, and minerals; daily intake of supplements; sources of. . . Vitamin

A…Tiamine….riboflavin…niacin…folate…vitamin

B6…B12…C…E…calcium…iron…magnesium…potassium…zinc; calorie

content of alcoholic beverages; calorie counts of various foods; fast food

comparisons; omega-3 acids in fish.

C. Cannon & E. Vierck. Complete Idiot’s Guide to The Anti- Inflammation Diet.

New York: Alpha (Penguin) Group, 2006. Number of people with inflammatory

diseases in the US; lists of the “itises”; body mass index; choices—dairy, soy, nuts,

fruits, vegetables; necessary calories; restaurant foods; list for best choices of

condiments; AHA food certification criteria; conversion guides for weights,

volumes, etc.; organic food sources.

J. LaPuma. Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine. New York, NY: Three

Rivers Press, 2008. Kitchen Prescription Glossary, Storing Foods Properly, Good

Sources of Vitamins and Minerals.

D. Ornish. The Spectrum. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2007. Primarily

about the health benefits of various foods; fish and Omega-3 acid; spectrum of

food choices; composition of oils and fats; healthful ingredients; when produce is

in season.

A. Weil. Eating Well for Optimum Health. New York, NY: 2000. Contains

Glycemic Index of foods; fats and oils; Omega-3 and Omega-6 sources; paleolithic

diet; raw food diet; traditional Japanese diet; “Asian Diet”; Vegan diet;

Mediterranean diet; Optimum diet; common health concerns.

ORCHIDS:

Judy White. Taylor’s Guide to Orchids. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Important introductions to growing, buying, caring for, etc. orchids. An A to Z

encyclopedia of plants is the major “list.”

ORGANIC GARDENING

See under Insects The Organic Gardeners’ Handbook.

Bonnie Lee Appleton. Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening: Trees, Shrubs,

and Vines. Rodale Press, 1993. Basic information on landscaping with trees,

shrubs, and vines; choosing plants; planting; care and maintenance; propagation;

and a “plant by plant” guide.

Fern M. Bradley & Barbara W. Ellis. All New Encyclopedia of Organic

Gardening. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1992 Covers everything: annuals for dry

sties and shade; beneficial insects; biennials for sun and shade; landscaping for

birds; raspberries, butterfly plants; cottage garden plants; best flowers for cutting;

foliage for cutting; organic fertilizers; unusual fruits; fruit tree insects and diseases;

grasses; green manures; groundcovers for dry shade, wet sites, and slopes; herbs;

meadow plants; nut trees; biennials for shade; perennials for different regions;

plants for rock gardens, for shady gardens; small trees; street trees; vegetables;

water gardens. Many, many “lists.”

J. Cox Your Organic Garden. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1994 Contains the

following topics (some sections have lists): tips for reducing landscape

maintenance; landscape budget stretching ideas; edible crops for landscape color;

trees and shrubs for birds (may not be native); Green Manures for home gardens;

compostable materials; seed starting times; tips for seed starting; block planting

distances for vegetables; plants that propagate easily by division; plants that attract

beneficial insects; troubleshooting vegetables and fruit pests; fertilizer; cool, warm,

and hot season vegetables; herbs; perennials; plants for butterfly and cottage

gardens.

Geoff Hamilton. Organic Gardening: The Essential Guide to Growing Flowers,

Fruit, and Vegetables the Natural Way. DK Publishing, 2004. Lists include: weeds

to remove from the garden (p. 61); recommended planting distances – for shrubs

(p. 77); choosing suitable plants for silt, sandy, alkaline, and acid soils (pp. 92-93);

tree fruit: shape, planting distance, site, soil preference, bearing age (p. 215); soft

fruit: shape, planting distance, site, soil preference, bearing age (p.225); the

gardening year: to-do list for each season (pp. 278-282).

PERENNIALS:

See under Annuals Botanica’s Annuals and Perennials.

See under Annuals Armitage’s Armitage’s Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and

Half Hardy Perennials.


See under Color Pam Duthie’s Continuous Bloom.




See under Comprehensive The New York/Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Book of

Lists.


See under Comprehensive the A-Z Encyclopedia.



See under Design Designing with Plants.



See under Design Creating Beds and Borders.



Invaders.




See under Natives Delawre Native Plants for Landscaping and Restoration.



See under Shade Schmid’s Timber Press Guide to Shade Perennials.


See under Succession the book by Christopher Lloyd.

Allan M. Armitage. Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their

Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes. 2nd

edition. Champaign, Ill.: Stipes

Publishing, 1989, 1997, 3rd

edition, 2008. An encyclopedia of herbaceous perennial

plants with extensive notes about each species.

Allan M. Armitage. Armitage’s Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia.

Timber Press, 2000. An encyclopedia of perrenials.

C. Colston Burrell. Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations that Make

Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start. Rodale Press, 1999. This book is

organized around “combination” –by color, for all seasons, for special sites, on the

wild side, for extra fun. Each chapter provides examples of plant combinations,

sometimes deploying very short “lists” of four or five, up to a dozen perennials. It

also contain garden plot plans which are most useful because each plot plan

includes a short list of suitable plants for the plan.

Susan Carter, Carrie Becker, Bob Lilly. Perennials: The Gardener’s Reference.

Timber Press, 2007. Almost 500 pages listing perennials.

Jeff & Marilyn Cox. The Perennial Garden: Color Harmonies Through the

Seasons. Rodale Press, 1985. A central chapter is on “Featured Players in the

Perennial Garden.” But there are also chapters on “Understanding Color

Harmonies” and “Color Harmonies Month by Month” which include short lists of

relevant plants.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning

Techniques. Timber Press, 1998, Separate chapters on basic perennial planting

and maintenance and pruning perennials, An A-Z Encyclopedia lists perennials.

Appendix A is on Ornamental Grasses. And Appendix C is Lists of Perennials

for Specific Pruning and Maintenance Requirements. This includes the

following lists: perennials that…tolerate wet soil…tolerate dry soil once

established; clay busters, higher maintenance perennials, lower maintenance

perennials , short-lived perennials, perennials to prune for pest and/or disease

control, deer-resistant perennials, perennials that…require staking…may

require division every 1-3 years...may require division every 4-5 years, may

require division….6-10 years…every ten years or more…to deadhead to

prolong bloom or for rebloom…do not rebloom with deadheading…to

deadhead to improve the overall appearance of the plant…to deadhead to a

lateral flower, bud, or leaf…to deadhead to the ground or to basal foliage;

reseeding plants; perennials…with attractive seedheads…with self-cleaning

flowers…that do not require deadheading…with seedheads that attract song

birds…to cut back…to keep in their own space…after flowering for aesthetics

in the spring…after flowering for aesthetics in the summer; perennials to

deadhead to a lateral leaf, bud, or flower and then cut back to basal foliage;

summer and autumn flowering perennials to cut back before flowering for

height control; perennials that will not flower if their terminal flower buds are

removed; perennials that can be pinched; perennials that…do not respond

well to pinching…that require deadleafing…normally do not need pruning for

the winter…that require maintenance in the spring…in the summer…in the

autumn.

Lewis & Nancy Hill. Successful Perennial Gardening: A Practical Guide. Garden

Way Publishing Book, Storey Communications, Pownal, VT.1988. There are

separate chapters on planning and planting a perennial garden, different kinds of

gardens (e.g., the perennial pathway, the seasonal garden, the foundation garden,

etc.), and an alphabetical species description of many perennials.

Larry Hodgson. Perennials for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your

Conditions, Your Garden,and Your Taste. Rodale Organic Gardening Book, 2000.

Perennials are described in terms of color and texture, form, repetition, etc. Then

there are lists of perennial plants: everblooming perennials, spring-blooming

perennials, summer-blooming perennials, fall-blooming perennials, no-care

perennials, low-care perennials, drought-resistant perennials, water-loving

perennials, perennials . . .for cool-summer climates…that bloom in the

shade…for fabulous foliage; groundcover perennials, perennials and grasses

for dramatic impact, for birds and butterflies.

Joseph Hudak. Gardening with Perennials: Month by Month. 2nd

Edition, revised

and expanded. Timber, 1993. Perennials by the month are described, as are Hardy

Ferns. There are also Useful Lists: Perennials. . .blooming 6 weeks or

more…having attractive foliage throughout the growing season…having

persistent winter foliage…showing ornamental fruit or dried flower and seed

head possibilities…exhibiting satisfactory drought tolerance…enjoying

constantly moist conditions…preferring semishade…accepting deep shade.

James H. Locklear. Phlox: A Natural History and Gardener’s Guide.

Timber Press, 2011. Comprehensive treatment of all the species. Locklear is

director of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. Contains a detailed alphabetical

description (list) of 61 species.

Ellen Phillips & C. Colston Burrell, eds. Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of

Perennials Rodale, 2004. “The Perennial Encyclopedia” section is an alpha listing

of perennials , pp 265-684. There are descriptive chapters on designing with

perennials, a perennial flower finder, perennial combinations, a gallery of garden

design, from garden design to garden bed, and growing with the design. Within the

Gallery of Garden Design chapter, there are short lists: classical perennial garden

(84-89), warm- and cool-color borders (90-97), a native plant garden for sun

and shade (98-101), magical moonlight garden (102-107), a cold climate

perennial garden (108-113), a list of plants for a drought garden (pp. 114-7).

Steven M. Still. Manual of Herbaceous Ornamental Plants. 4th edition.

Champaign, Ill.: Stipes Publishing. 1994.Plants are arranged alphabetically by

genus.

Emma Sweeney. Perennials: A Growing Guide for Easy, Colorful Gardens. New

York: Macmillan [Burpee], 1998. Contains a “plant portraits” section that lists

perennials.

Graham Stuart Thomas. Perennial Garden Plants or The Modern Florilegium. 3rd

Edition. Timber Press, Saga Pess1990. A concise history of herbaceous plants,

including bulbs, for general garden use. Includes three main lists: Alphabetical list

of plants excluding grasses and ferns; alphabetical list of grasses, sedges and

rushes; alphabetical list of ferns.

PRAIRIES:

See under Design The New Perennial Garden and The Natural Garden Style

Lynn M. Steiner. Prairie-Style Gardens. Timber Press, 2010. While describing

her own prairie-style garden in Minnesota, she lists the tall, mixed, and shortgrass

varieties suitable for prairie planting. An appendix lists tallgrass species by

botanical name, divided into the categories Flowers, Grasses and Sedges, Shrubs

and Small Trees, and Trees. Explains planning, site selection, preparation,

purchasing, planting, techniques for smaller space, and the pitfalls of native

landscapes in urban and suburban neighborhoods.

PROPAGATION:

See under Natives The New England Wildflower Society….

Ken Druse. Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation. New

York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2000. Propagation of woody plants and

wildflowers, seed propagation, Trilliums, and Botany.

PRUNING:

See under Comprehensive The City Gardener’s Handbook

See under Shrubs Dirr’s books on Hydrangeas and Viburnums

[American Horticultural Society]. Pruning and Training. AHS Publications, 1996,

2011. Basics of pruning, step-by-step instructions, illustrations and advice on

pruning specific plants including fruiting, trees, shrubs, and vines.

Susan Barton. Pruning. University of Delawares Cooperative Extension. 1992. No

lists but good pruning advice

Patrick Johns. An Introduction to Pruning. Gallery Books, Quintet Publishing

Ltd., 1991. Along with the typical chapters on the whys and hows of pruning, the

chapter on shrubs contains an alpha list of popular shrubs. There is a similar

chapter on popular vines, climbers, and wall plants, hedges, trees, fruit and nut

trees.

Judy Lowe. Ortho’s All About Pruning. Meredith Books, 1999. Pruning trees,

shrubs, vines, evergreens, and fruiting trees. Contains an encyclopedia of

deciduous trees …of shrubs…of evergreen trees…of evergreen shrubs.

Principles of Pruning. Corona Clipper. [n.d.]

Pruning in the Home Garden. University of Maryland Cooperative Extension

Service, Bulletin 1970. Revised 1977. No lists but good pruning advice

Pruning Shade Trees in the Landscape. University of Florida Fact Sheet ENH 847.

Pruning Trees, Shrubs and Vines. A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin. An

expanded version of “How to Prune and Trim” by Seymour Smith & Son, Inc.

1980. Has a very useful condensed pruning guide to trees, shrubs, and vines.

Donald A. Rakow & Richard Weir. Pruning: An Illustrated Guide to Pruning

Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. Cornell University Cooperative Extension

Information Bulletin 23, 1989. [replaces Information Bulletin 23 An Illustrated

Guide to Pruning Ornamental Trees and Shrubs on the Home Grounds by Arthur

S. Lieberman, revised 1984. Excellent guide to pruning with seasonal pruning

chart.

RAIN GARDEN:

See under Sustainability Sue Barton’s Liveable Ecosystems

ROSES:



Se under Comprehensive The Gardener’s Home Companion.




Pat Shanley, Peter Kukielski & Gene Waering,eds. The Sustainable Rose

Garden. Havertown, PA.: Casemate/Newbury Books, 2010, Describes the “new”

method of rose care without using toxic chemicals. Active aerated compost tea is

sprayed so as to introduce good fungus/s and bacteria to out-compete the pest

organisms. This organic approach to pest and disease control, coupled with new

disease-resistant hybrids has revolutionized rose growing. 38 pieces by noted

rosarians are included as well as lists of new roses.

SEASIDE [SEE UNDER WATERSIDE]:

SEASONS, PLANTS FOR SPECIFIC:

See under Color Planting for Color , Continuous Bloom, and The Harmonious

Garden.


See under Natives Grow Native Shrubs.

SHADE:

[For Dry Shade see under Dry; for Wet Shade see under Wet Sites]

See under Annuals Armitge’s Manual of Annuals…. (shade-tolerant plants).



See under Shrubs Broadleaved Shrubs and Shade Trees.

Beth Chatto. The Shade Garden: Shade-loving Plants for Year-Round Interest.

Cassell Illustrated, 2002. Focusing on the wood garden (trees and shrubs for

shelter, evergreen shrubs for the understory, leaf-losing understory shrubs), there

are chapters arranged “seasonally.” And, there is a separate chapter (#8) which is a

list of Shade-Tolerant Plants including sections on trees, shrubs and climbers;

perennials and bulbs; ferns, grasses and grass-like plants.

Ken Druse. The Natural Shade Garden. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers,

1992. Chapters on taking inspiration from the wild, planning the shade garden,

plants for the floor, middle, and top layers, special gardens (stone, water,

woodland), and has a gallery of shade gardens. He also includes lists of

herbaceous perennials, ornamental shrubs.

W. George Schmid. Timber Press Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials. Timber

Press, 2005. An illustrated listing with annotations of shade perennials.

Wiley, Keith. Shade: Planting Solutions for Shady Gardens. Timber Press, 2006.

Chapters on woodland shade, country gardens, urban retreats, vertical elements,

and hard landscaping. Plants for Shady Gardens describes shady plants in

nature, creating shade, planting in shade, and combining shade-lovers. There is a

Plant Directory covering trees and shrubs, perennials, bulbs, grasses and

bamboos, and ferns.

SHRUBS:



See under Color and Succession the books by Christopher Lloyd.

See under Comprehensive theA-Z Encyclopedia.

See under Comprehensive The New York/ Mid-Atlantic…Book of Lists.

See under Comprehensive The Well0Designed Mixed Garden.










See under Disease Diseases of Trees and Shrubs.


See under Insects Insects that Feed on Trees and Shrubs.

See under Insects Landscape IPM.


Invaders, Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas.

See under Natives William Cullina’s Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines.

See under Natives Mooberry and Scott’s Grow Native Shrubs in Your Garden.






See under Organic Gardening Organic Gardening.

See under Organic Gardening Your Organic Garden.

See under Organic Gardening All New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.

See under Organic Gardening Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening.




See under Trees Botanica’s Trees and Shrubs.

See under Trees Michael A. Dirr’s Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.

See under Trees Michael A. Dirr’s Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs.

See under Trees the book by Diana M. Miller. 400 Trees and Shrubs for Small

Spaces.

Richard Bird. Shrubs: A Complete Guide to Successful Growing. New York:

Lorenz, 1998.The chapter on “choosing shrubs” gives brief descriptions of shrubs.

The longer chapter “Shrubs for all seasons” lists appropriate shrubs for the seasons.

Michael A. Dirr. Hydrangeas for American Gardens. Timber Press, 2004. After an

introductory chapter on “characteristics, taxonomy, and nomenclature,” there are

separate chapters on hydrangea species, but only one chapter (#10) has a Cultivar

Chart. This is followed by chapters on “hydrangeas worthy of cursory

introduction,” garden care and culture, propagation, pests and diseases

Michael A. Dirr. Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season. Timber Press,

2007. Chapters on history, nomenclature and taxonomy, Species and Cultivars,

Breeding, Planting, Pruning, Diseases, Insects and Pests, Propagation. The

Chapter on Species and Cultivars is the annotated listing of Viburnums.

Mary Kay Malinoski & David L. Clement. Broadleaved Shrubs and Shade

Trees: Problems, Picture Clues, and Management Options. Ithaca, NY: Natural

Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES), Cooperative Extension,

2009. Excellent diagnostic book containing separate chapters on plant symptoms

and possible causes key, abiotic problems, diseases, insects, wildlife.

Donald Wymann. Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens. Revised & enlarged

edition.New York: Macmillan Co., 1969. While dated in many ways, still has some

interest. Chapters on the order of bloom, ornamental fruits, and foliage colors.

Major chapter on shrubs for various purposes—e.g., shrubs for shade… for

moist to wet soils…for dry and sandy soils…for acid soils…hardiest shrubs

(for various zones)…withstanding city conditions…for bank planting…with

thorny stems…for clipped hedges…for screens and windbreaks…for ground

covers…of different heights…with fragrant flowers…with interesting

bark…bloom on current year’s wood. There is an alphabetically ordered

chapter on “recommended plants” and a separate chapter on vines.

SMALL SPACES:

See under Comprensive Clive Lane’s Plants for Small Spaces.



See under Trees Diana M. Miller’s 400 Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces.

SOIL:


See under Comprehensive Right Plant, Right Place (plants suitable for

various soils)



SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS:

Pitta Joffe. Creative Gardening with Indigenous Plants: A South African Guide.

2001. A general guide to South African plants. Lists of what are called “the

groups” include Trees, Shrubs, Herbaceous perennials, groundcovers and

bulbs, water gardens, annuals, climbers.

SPECIAL GARDENS:


Rita Buchanan. The Winter Garden:Taylor’s Weekend Gardening Guides. New

York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1997. Lists plants suitable for the winter garden:

evergreens (conifers, broadleaf evergreen shrubs, low-growing evergreen

plants), shrubs with distinctive bark, trees with distinctive bark, grasses, winter

fruits and berries, early flowers on trees and shrubs, fragrant spring shrubs,

“precocious perennials.”

Duncan Lowe. Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden. Timber Press, 1995.

Describes the “where and why” of cushion plant, cultivation, propagation, and

pests and diseases. There’s a “quick reference plant list” pp. 147-151.

Cathy Wilkinson Barash. Evening Gardens: Planning and Planting a Landscape

to Dazzle the Senses After Sundown. Shelburne, VT: Chapters Publishing

Ltd,.1993. The major chapter on “Plants for the Evening Garden” has several

specific lists: textured bark, flowers aglow, bright flowers, pale flowers, white

flowers, night bloomers, silver foliage, foliage for contrast, and fragrant plants.

Liz Primeau. Front Yard Gardens: Growing More than Grass. Toronto: Firefly

Books, 2003,2010. Describes various “kinds” of gardens with plant lists for each

kind: cottage…small city…opulent…minimalist…fusion…natural…neigh

borhood…secret gardens. Lots of pictures and design plans.

Edmund C. & Lucie L. Snodgrass. Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting

Guide. Timber Press, 2006. General introductory discussion of design and

construction, but most importantly lists of plant types for green roofs as well as a

“directory of plants by color and type.”

SUCCESSION PLANTING [FLOWERS]:

Christopher Lloyd. Succession Planting for Year-Round Pleasure. Timber Press,

2005. Chapters on Succession, Anchor Plants, Perennials and Bulbs, Bedding

plants, Self Sowers, and Climbers. No actual lists but lots of plants mentioned.

SUCCULENTS:

SUN:

See under Design Creating Beds and Borders and The New Perennial Garden.

See under Invasives Livable Plants for Home Landscapes.


SUSTAINABILITY:

Susan Barton. Livable Ecosystems: A Model for Suburbia. [U.D., 2011].

Excellent introduction to Ecosystems Services—clean water, fresh air, wildlife,

human wellness—and home landscape strategies. Section on installing a rain

garden (with a list of plants for a rain garden), planting a windbreak, planting a

forest, manage a meadow, and plant a butterfly garden (with a list of plants that are

a good nectar source and attract a wide variety of butterflies and a list of plants that

will provide food for butterfly larvae).

Peter Harper, with Chris Madsen & Jeremy Light. The Natural Garden Book:

A Holistic Approach to Gardening. London: Gaia Books Ltd., 1994. [Also

published by Simon & Schuster/Fireside.]. In its own words “a celebration of the

interaction of nature and human content.” Its focus is on gardening for the plant;

therefore, it talks about planning your “useful, resourceful, water-efficient, and

productive” garden. It also has chapters on the wildlife garden, the healing garden,

the Gaian garden, the habitat garden, the urban garden, the

mountain…coastal…woodland…wetland…climate…cool temperate…and arid

garden. There are chapters on “natural gardening techniques.” And, there are lists

throughout the book, especially for each of the “natural” gardens.

TREES:









See under Comprehensive The Well-Designed Mixed Garden.



See under Disease Diseases of Trees and Shrubs.


See under Insects Landscape IPM.



See under Invasives Plants for a Livable Delaware, Controlling Backyard.

Invaders, Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas.



See under Natives American Plants for American Gardens




See under Organic Gardening Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening.


See under Prairies Prairie-Style Gardening.

See under Shrubs Insects that feed on Trees and Shrubs.


Bonnie Appleton et.al. Trees for Problem Landscape Sites—the Walnut Tree:

Allelopathic Effects and Tolerant Plants. Virginia Cooperative Extension

Publication Number 430-021, posted January 2000. Understanding allelopathy and

its effects. Lists of tolerant grasses, trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers and flowers.

List of plants damaged by juglone.

Botanica. Botanica’s Trees and Shrubs. San Diego: Laurel Glen Publishing, 1999.

Again, more encyclopedia than “lists,” but describes over 2,000 trees and shrubs

alphabetically.

Allen J. Coombes. Trees: Smithsonian Handbooks. 2nd

American Edition. New

York: Dorling Kindesley, 2002. Divided into sections on “conifers and their allies”

and “broadleaves,” pictorial handbook vignettes of leaves, bark, characteristics,

etc.

Michael A. Dirr. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification,

Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses. Fifth Edition.

Champaign, Ill.: Stipes Publishing, 1975 (revised 1977, 1983, 1990, 1998). [Trees,

shrubs,vines ]

Michael A. Dirr. Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia.

Timber Press, 1997. This is an A-Z illustrated guide to woody plants. Part II

contains several lists: Selecting Plants for Specific Characteristics or Purposes.

Trees design characteristics: flower color and fragrance, fruit, fall color, bark,

weeping habit, columnar or fastigiated habit, principles species of commerce,

underutilized species and cultivars, guide to tree sizes; Trees cultural

characteristics: tolerance to compacted soils, drought, and heat; street and urban

planting; tolerance to moist to wet soils; salt tolerance; shade tolerance; Shrubs

design characteristics: showy flowers, by color; fragrant flowers; flowering

sequence; fruit; fall color; evergreen, semi-evergreen, or tardily deciduous foliage;

winter stem color and texture; a guide to shrub size; Shrubs cultural

characteristics: tolerance to dry soils; tolerance to moist soils; salt tolerance;

shade tolerance; hedges and parterres; pruning times; Needle evergreen design

and cultural characteristics: single specimens, groupings, screen, and groves;

hedging; groundcovers and massing; salt tolerance; shade tolerance; Vines design

and cultural characteristics: flowers, fruit, and fall color; true clinging vines;

shade tolerance

Gerd Krussmann. Manual of Cultivated Conifers. 2nd

Revised edition. Timber

Press, 1983. An encyclopedia of conifers.

Diana M. Miller. 400 Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces. Timber Press, 2008.

After interesting, short chapters on names of woody plants, selecting woody plants

(use, different purposes, conditions in the garden), looking after woody plants

(purchasing, pruning, propagation, pests, diseases and other problems), there is an

“A to Z of Trees and Shrubs,” pages 44-178. Following that is a reference guide

(using shrub sizes dwarf, small, medium and large shrubs) organized in terms of

“flowers in shades of blue….in shades of yellow….in shades of pink and

purple….in shades of green….in shades of red, orange and deep pink….in shades

of white and cream; plants with attractive foliage; plants with attractive fruits;

plants grown mainly for their habit, stem effect or other feature.

Robert A. Obrizok. A Garden of Conifers: Introduction and Selection Guide. 2nd

edition, revised and expanded. London: Firefly Books, 1999. Describes cultivation

and garden uses, genera description, and provides a “descriptive checklist” of

conifers organized by species. Very comprehensive.

George A. Petrides & Janet Wehr. Eastern Trees. [Peterson Field Guides]. New

York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Standard lists of trees of the Eastern US.

Trees for Delaware. author [not known; ud], date of publication [also not

known—nd]. It has a two-page fold-out “Tree Selection Guide,” but it also has

brief sections describing why trees are important to people, why tree ordinances

are important, information on plant selection [diversity, climate, microhabitats,

appropriate size, design], site preparation, planting process, maintenance,

pruning, problems to avoid, and diagnosing problems.

Taylor’s Guides Trees [edited by Susan A. Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin,

2001] which includes a “Gallery of Trees,” pp. 41-188 that is a section that

includes selected trees and pictures and an “Encyclopedia of Trees,” pp. 189-158,

but also [in the Appendix] sections on Trees that tolerate alkaline soil, …with

ornamental bark, …that attract songbirds, hummingbirds and other wildlife,

….that tolerate drought… , with outstanding fall color, … with showy flowers,

… that tolerate road salt and sea salt, …. for windbreaks and screens, …that

tolerate full or partial shade, …with colorful fruits, street trees, urban shade trees,

…that tolerate wet soil.

D.M.van Gelderen & J.R.P. van Hoey Smith. Conifers: The Illustrated

Encyclopedia. 2 vols. [text by van Gelderen; photography by van Hoey Smith.]

TURF:






D. E. Aldous & I.H. Chivers. Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for

Use and Identification., Collingwood, Australia: Landlinks Press, 2002. A listing

and illustration of spots turf and amenity grasses—cool season, warm season, and

minor sports turf and amenity grasses—cool season, warm season grasses.

Sue Barton. Successful Lawn Management. University of Delaware, Cooperative

Extension, 1992. Comprehsive discussion of turf management. Ends with lists of

turf diseases.

Richard W.Smiley, Peter H.Dernoeden,Bruce B.Clarke. Compendium of

Turfgrass Diseases. 3rd edition. APS Press, 2005. Exactly what it says it is.

See also the following Extension publications: Diseases of Tall Fescue

Lawns—Delaware Cooperative Extension PP-22; Fungicide Recommendations for

Turf Grass –Delaware Cooperative Extension PP-07; Turfgrass Selections for

Delaware—Delaware Cooperative Extension HYG-39; Lawn Diseases—

Identification and Management—PP-06; Thatch and Its Control—HYG-41;

Broadleaf Weed Control in Established Lawns.—Maryland Cooperative Extension,

Agronomy Mimeo 79 (rev. 2/99); Plant Disease Control: Managing Diseases of

Landscape Turf—Rutgers Cooperative Extension [no number]; Weed Control in

Home Lawns—Rutgers Cooperative Extension, FS119; Turfgrass Weed

Control.—Delaware County (PA) Extension Service [no number]

URBAN GARDENING:

Helen Babbs. My Garden, The City, and Me. Timber Press, 2011. Chronicles her

first year as a 20-something London gardener.

Dan Pearson. Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City. Octopus Books, 2011.

Famous landscape designer describes a year creating a tranquil space to escape.

Design ideas, plant recommendations, gardening tips.

Lorraine Johnson. City Farmer. Toronto: Greystone Books, 2010. Account of an

urban gardener with short lists of plants.

Sundari Elizabeth Kraft. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Urban Homesteading.

Alpha Books, 2011. Tips on containers and rooftop gardening, permaculture,

foraging, seed saving, managing pests, and plant diseases, etc.

Jeremy N. Smith. Growing a Garden City. Sky Horse Publishing, 2010. Focuses

on Garden City Harvest in Missoula, Montana. Good information on community

gardening.

David Tracey. Urban Agriculture. New Society Publishers, 2011. A how-to and

why-to book with world-wide input.

VEGETABLES:


See under Basics Gardening Basics.


See under Design Lasaga Gardening.

See under Disease What’s Wrong with My Plant.


See under Insects Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect Pests.




Mel Bartholomew. Square Foot Gardening. Rodale Press, 1981. All about

vegetable gardening with numerous charts and graphs and appropriate times to

plant vegetables throughout the year.

Fern Marshall Bradley. Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver: The Best

and Latest Advice for beating Pests, Diseases, and Weeds and Staying a Step

Ahead of Trouble in the Garden. Rodale, 2007. Lists: cover crops as problem

solvers (pp. 140-141); Nutrient deficiency symptoms (p. 201).

Sally Jean Cunningham. Great Garden Companions: A Companion Planting

System for a Beautiful, Chemical-free Vegetable Garden. Rodale Press, Inc. 1998.

Sally is a Master Gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension. Her book is full

of good advice for companion planting and lists: botanical families (p. 49); veggie

appetites - heavy, moderate, and light feeders, as well as soil builders (p. 51);

growing in the shadows – list of tall, midsize, and short crops (p. 54); garden to-do

lists for spring, summer, fall (pp. 157-165); plants for beneficial insects (pp. 247-

257); plants that (may) keep pests away (pp. 258-259).

Karan Davis Cutler. Burpee The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener: A Guide

to Growing Your Garden Organically. Wiley Publishing, Inc. 1997. Lists include:

they’re good for you: good sources of vitamins and minerals (pp. 10-11); crop

yields per 100-foot row (p. 14); quick-maturing vegetables & herbs (p. 21);

compost ingredients (p. 49); compost cautions (p. 50); composting problems and

solutions (p. 51); plant pH preferences (p. 55); nutrient sources (p. 56); green

manures: type, when to sow, seeding rate (pp. 60-61); applying organic fertilizer:

organic amendment, primary benefit, average analysis, rate per 1,000 sq. ft.,

comments (pp. 62-65); some like it hot: heat and cold tolerant crops (p. 82);

horticultural hares & tortoises: short and long season crops (p. 86); edible

ornaments (p. 87); who’s what in additives: common ingredients found in seed-

starting mixes (p. 115); what’s thirsty when: crop, when water is most important

and quantity (p. 127); problem patrol: insect and disease symptoms (pp. 144-145);

planting a trap: pest and trap crop (p. 150); naturally repellent: plant and pest

repelled (p.154); safety first: working with pesticides (p. 158); spring and fall

freeze dates by state (pp. 423-429).

W. Doty. All About Vegetables. San Ramon, CA: Ortho Books, 1990. planting

chart with plant spacing, depth of planting, germination time, etc.; storage

recommendations conditions and time; freezing recommendations for vegetables;

tomato varieties.

Bob Gough. The Smart Gardener’s Guide to Growing Vegetables. Mechanics-

burg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996. General introduction to vegetable gardening

with helpful “lists” on cool and warm season plants, perennials-biennials-annuals,

germination temperatures, diseases and pests, etc.

John Jeavons. How to Grow More Vegetables. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press,

1074, 1979, 1982, 1990, 1991m 1995, 2001, 2002, 2006. Has an extensive

Bibliography and Resources section—animals, appropriate technologies, dryland

farming, bamboo, biodynamics , biointensive/botany, calorie/diet crops, children’s

books, climate, companion planting, compost, container gardening, cookbooks,

crafts, education, flowers, food and nutrition, food preservation and storage,

fruits-berries-nuts, gardening, grains, greenhouse culture, etc. Also many “lists”

on seed propagation, master charts and planning, garden plans, companion

planting.

Brenda Little. Secrets of Companion Planting. Chicago: Leatherwood Press,

2008. Has an A to Z guide to companion plants as well as chapters on planning

and designing a companion garden, insects and pests with companion plants,

good/bad companions, maintenance.

Louise Riotte. Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for

Successful Gardening. Revised edition. Storey Publishing, 1998. Lists include:

insect control through companion planting - list of herbs and the insect they deter

(pp. 154-155); poisonous plants – scientific and common names plus poisonous

part of plant (pp. 172-179); list of cool, warm, and perennial season vegetables

with companion plants and plants that hinder them (pp. 186-188); vegetable

growing guide for minigardens – containers (p. 198); plants for a spirit (wine and

beer) garden (pp. 200-201).

Edward C. Smith. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible: Discover Ed’s High-yield

W-O-R-D System for all North American Gardening Regions – Wide Rows –

Organic Methods – Raised Beds – Deep Soil. Storey Publishing, 2000. Lists

include: some facts about raised-bed materials (p. 28); plant families (p. 40); some

garden friends and adversaries (pp. 40 – 41); row covers compared (p. 64); weed-

killing inorganic mulches compared (p. 81); some clues to what nutrients your

plants need (p. 115); ideal pH range for plants (p. 120); what to compost (p. 138);

compost troubles solved – symptom, possible cause, and solution (p. 147); pest

controls at a glance (p. 162).

Joanne Thuente & Shannon Carmody, Compilers and editors. Seed Savers

Exchange: 2011 Yearbook. Published annually by the Seed Savers Exchange. An

online companion to the Yearbook can be found at

http://yearbook.seedsavers.org. A guide to requesting seeds, listed alphabetically

William Woys Weaver. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener’s

Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History. New York: Henry Holt &

Co., 1997. Discussion of the kitchen garden and heirloom vegetables. Separate

sections on each heirloom vegetable. The Works Cited appendix is a list of works

on vegetables , from 1591 to 1996. Most valuable for those doing historical

research on vegetables.

VINES:

See under Annuals Armitage’s Manual of Annuals….



See under Comprehensive Dry-land Gardening.

See under Comprehensive Gardening in the Mid Atlantic.



See under Comprehensive Tough Plants for Tough Places

See under Comprehensive The A-Z Encyclopedia.







See under Shrubs Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens.

See under Trees Michael A. Dirr’s Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.

Allan M. Armitage. Armitage’s Vines and Climbers. Timber Press, 2011. Guide

to vines and climbers, listing many with specific conditions for growing, etc.

WATERSIDE/SEASIDE/AQUATIC PLANTS:

See under Invasives Livable Plants for the Home Landscape, Plant

http://yearbook.seedsavers.org/

Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas.



See under Comprehensive The A-Z Encyclopedia and Right Plant, Right Place.

See under Natives Armitage’s Native Plants…, American Plants for American

Gardens, Bringing Nature Home.


See under South African Plants Creative Gardening.

James Allison. Water in the Garden. Blacksburg, VA: Salamander Press, 1991.

General introduction to water gardens, their design, plants, fish, care and wildlife

ponds. Lists throughout.

Stefan Buczacki. Best Water Plants. London: Hamlyn, 1995. General discussion

of water garden issues—creation, types of water gardens, planting, feeding, and

aftercare. Plus there is a lengthy “plant directory” of plants—marginals, water

plants, submerged plants, floating plants, bog plants, ferns, grasses, bog garden

trees and shrubs.

Teri Dunn.Water Gardens: A Guide to Creating, Caring For, and Enjoying

Aquatic Landscaping. New York: Friedman Fairfax Publishing, 1997. Everything

you ever wanted to know about water gardens. Has a twenty page “list” of plants

for the water garden.

WEEDS:

See under Edible Plants Eat the Weeds.

See under Insects Insect, Disease, & Weed I.D. Guide.

See under Invasives Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas.

See under Organic Gardening Organic Gardening.

Richard Mabey. Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants. New York:

Harper Collins, 2010. British plant names a limitation, but writing is informative

and occasionally amusing. Short lists of weeds

Walter Conrad Mueascher. Weeds. 2nd

edition. Comstock Publishing Associates,

Cornell University, 1980. Two exceptionally helpful lists: “some common weed

hosts which harbor diseases of common crop plants” (pp. 26-29) and “the

commonest weeds of lawns and turfs” (pp. 37-45).

Richard H. Uva, Joseph C Neal & Joseph M. DiTomaso. Weeds of the

Northeast. Comstock Publishing Associates ( a division of Cornell University

Press), 1997. The identification process starts with using vegetative keys and tables

to narrow down identification. Once you have narrowed the choices,there are four

to five excellent photos of each plant including their seeds.

WET/MOIST SITES:


See under Design Creating Beds and Borders and The New Perennial Garden.



See under Perennials The Well-Tended Perennial Garden and Gardening with

Perennials

WILDFLOWERS:


See under Comprehensive Right Plant, Right Place

See under Design Creating Beds and Borders and The New Perennial Garden

See under Natives William Cullina’s The New England Wild Flower Society

Guide


See under Natives Samuel B. Jones. Gardening with Native Wild Flowers.


See under Natives Gardening with Native Wildflowers.


Joan Barker. The Encyclopedia of North American Wild Flowers. Bath,

U.K.:Parragon Publishing, 2004. Each chapter describes different groups of

wildflowers—boggy, swampy and damp habitats, desert, woodland and forest,

meadow and field, plains and prairie, rocky-stony dry and sandy habitats, roadside

and waste ground, coastal habitats, mountain and hillside, water plants. The book

is one long “list” of wild flowers.

Steven Clemants & Carol Gracie. Wildflowers in the Field and Forest:A Field

Guide to the Northeastern United States. New York: Oxford University Press,

2006. Organizes species according to color: blue to violet, pink to red, orange,

yellow, green, brown and white.

Mary Ferguson & Richard M.Saunders. Wildflowers Through the Seasons.

NewYork: Arrow,1989

Viki Ferreniea. Wildflowers in Your Garden: A Gardener’s Guide. New York:

Random House, 1993

Roger Tory Peterson & Margaret McKenny. Wildflowers: Northeastern/North-

central North American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968, 1996. One of the

Peterson Field Guides, describes the “families of flowers” by colors: white, yellow,

orange, pink to red, violet to blue, green and brown flowers.

Jim Wilson. Landscaping with Wildflowers: An Environmental Approach to

Gardening. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

WILDLIFE/ HABITAT:

Marcus Schneck. Your Backyard Wildlife Garden: How to Attract and Identify

Wildlife in Your Yard. Rodale Press, 1992. Contains everything you’d want to

know about backyard wildlife attraction and habitat: trees, butterflies and moths,

amphibians and reptiles, hummingbirds, mammals, backyard species, etc.

WOODLAND:


See under Design Natural Garden Style.


Richard Bird. Woodland Gardening. London: Souvenir Press, 1992. General

introduction to the subject, followed by specific lists of trees and shrubs,

groundcovers, perennials, annual and biennial plants, bulbs, grasses, bamboos, and

ferns.

Rick Darke. The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the

Deciduous Forest. Timber Press, 2002. Chapter five is “The Forest Palette,” which

describes briefly the list of woodland plants discussed elsewhere in the book.

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